Is Marks & Spencers SUPER SEEDED Bread ultra-processed?

400g Sliced breads Sold in the United Kingdom and Ireland

Yes, it's ultra-processed

1 Unprocessed
2 Kitchen staple
3 Processed
4 Ultra-processed

Signs of ultra-processing in its ingredients:

Gluten

23 ingredients
1 additive
Nutri-Score B

Less processed sliced breads

Less processed isn't automatically healthier, so compare the labels for what matters to you, such as sugar or salt.

Ingredients

Ultra-processing Processing signs are highlighted

Wheatflour, Water, Mixed Seeds 19% (Sunflower Seeds, Millet, Golden Linseed, Brown Linseed, Poppy Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds), Wheat Gluten (ultra-processing marker), Yeast (Yeast Vitamin D Yeast), Wheatflour, Salt (processing marker), Brown Sugar (processing marker), Malted Barley Flour, Palm Oil, Fractionated Palm Oil, Soya Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Caramelised Sugar Syrup (processing marker), Flour Treatment Agent (Ascorbic Acid)

Additives: E300 Ascorbic acid

As written on the pack

Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Water, Mixed Seeds (19%) (Sunflower Seeds, Millet, Golden Linseed, Brown Linseed, Poppy Seeds, Pumpkin Seeds), Dried Wheat Gluten, Yeast (Yeast Vitamin D Yeast) Dried Fermented Wheatflour (contains Gluten), Salt , Brown Sugar, Malted Barley Flour (contains Gluten), Palm Oil, Fractionated Palm Oil, Soya Flour, Rapeseed Oil, Caramelised Sugar Syrup, Flour Treatment Agent: Ascorbic Acid

What makes it ultra-processed

Substances rarely used in home kitchens

Refined or extracted in factories, such as syrups made from starch or isolated proteins. The other hallmark of ultra-processed food.

Gluten Wheat gluten, sold as "vital wheat gluten", is the protein washed out of wheat flour.

2 ingredients that would only make it processed

Kitchen staples like sugar, salt and oil. On their own they make a food processed, not ultra-processed.

Salt Salt, added for taste and preservation.
Sugar Sugar refined from sugar cane or beet.

How the NOVA groups work

Among 389 sliced breads

From least to most processed, this one ranks 132nd. 87% of the sliced breads here are ultra-processed.

Ranked by NOVA group, then by the number of ultra-processing signs, additives and ingredients. Our ordering, not part of NOVA.

All 389 sliced breads, least processed first

About this information

Data from this product on Open Food Facts (barcode 00724159, last edited 7 June 2026), available under the Open Database License. If something is wrong or the recipe has changed, you can correct it there.
Photo: Open Food Facts contributors, CC BY-SA 3.0.
The NOVA group is an automated estimate from crowdsourced data: a missing or mistyped ingredient can change it.
NOVA measures processing, not nutrition. For nutrition, Open Food Facts gives this product a Nutri-Score of B (from A, best, to E).
General information, not medical or dietary advice. Check the pack if you have an allergy.